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Short walk and paper mail in the time of COVID19 Soundwalk

Isolone Bertolla, Torino, Piemonte, 10099, Italia

A 14-minute field recording by giuseppe gavazza made in Turin, Italy on 11 April 2020, in the evening. Soundscape: soundwalks.

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Short walk and paper mail in the time of COVID19 Soundwalk
14:09Public Domain Markby giuseppe gavazzaInternet Archive
14:09
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Recordist's notes

Chapter XLI of Ascolto il tuo cuore, città. I listen to your heart, city Saturday April 11th 2020. Short walk to Tabaccheria to buy stamp and send a paper mail to France, San Salvario district Turin, thirty two days after emergency disposition due to the epidemic of COVID19. Start at 5:46 p.m. end at 6:00 p.m. duration of recording 14’08” Binaural recording made with ZoomH2n and Soundman OKMII, 24 bit, 48 KHz, stereo wav converted in MP3 320 kbit/s. As binaural recording is suggested headphones listening. The entire path is associated with a synchronized GPS track recorded in the (kmz, kml, gpx) files downloadable here: http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/11_Apr_2020_17_45_19.kmz http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/11_Apr_2020_17_45_19.kml http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/11_Apr_2020_17_45_19.gpx.zip

Written by giuseppe gavazza on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Turin is a city of about 847,287 people in Piedmont, Italy. OttoAnna lists 203 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Zoom H2n and Binaural microphones. A compact recorder with five capsules offering X/Y, mid-side and surround modes.

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